Add ilv requirement please in ShB[Dev Request]

[Ceridwenae]

I'm usually very easy going about stuff like this, mostly because everyone's different, and there's likely a lot of reasons out-of-game undergearing happens. I'm not wanting to apportion blame to a bunch of people I don't know*, because that's too much like black-and-white thinking, and that's silly or dangerous. However! It happens all the same, and the result can either make difficult content (YMMV) even more so, or it's just tedious, not fun and can generally stress people out unnecessarily. Stressed people in a game is not a good look. Therefore, I do think ilevels should be enforced. Perhaps even quite harshly.

Honestly, I've been a bit miffed when held back by ilevels before, so I understand the "I just want to story" argument; however, the game just isn't designed that way at this point. If that hasn't gotten into a person's head that gear matters by level 60 or 70, it's worrying to the point where even I think this is borked and wouldn't want to group with that person. It's not the same as being new to content and/or unfamiliar with mechanics or how to pull or whatever. That you can learn, even if it takes a while to do it (am classic example of this). But your gear? Yeah. At least give yourself a fighting chance by getting the best stuff you can and meeting a requirement to progress.

A fix would be to require the Roulette to check that 1.) you have all your gear equipped before you queue, and 2.) the gear is relevant to the level of the job you are trying to queue in on (so that you can’t replace your level 65 gear with level 50 gear to avoid higher leveling dungeons). They’ve shown that the roulettes can check for item levels, so they would just need to add in these additional flags.

I mean, this. Just do it, SE. It surely can't be that difficult to make this a better experience for everyone overall.



*Little edit: If I'm grouped with someone who seems to be having a bad time and their gear ends up being an issue, then yeah. I will have a grumble about it. Just can't do it to the point where I'll say "three quarters of all tanks are stupids who don't gear correctly".